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At the stroke of midnight last Friday, half of Germany’s remaining nuclear power stations closed down. The remaining three plants (of an original 17) will shut down on December 31 of ...

As the world shifts irrevocably and inexorably towards clean energy and net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry is finding itself under siege on multiple fronts By Dr Charles Ellinas ...

Our leaders embraced illogical behaviour from the beginning and have never deviated from that path By Christos Panayiotides The word “surrealism” comes from the French words “sur” (on, above) and “...

By Alper Ali Riza Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for sexually abusing girls. She ...

As a dreadful year draws to an end and the Omicron variant turns out to be less lethal than its predecessors, premature outbreaks of cheerfulness have been spotted in many ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Maari spent some not unpleasant years at boarding school. Her parents, serving the Crown in far flung places, wanted her to have ...

The geopolitical question of the moment is: how important is it to humour Russian leader Vladimir Putin? The answer is: not very. Throw him a fish or two, because he’...

ExxonMobil considers the East Med a promising hydrocarbon basin By Charles Ellinas With Covid-19 resurging, Cyprus’ EEZ is back in the limelight. ExxonMobil is about to start drilling in block 10, ...

By Gwynne Dyer The “new normal”, said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides We have arrived, yet again, at Christmas, which we will celebrate next Saturday. At Christmas, we recall the innocence of the newborn baby, we launch a ...

Government inefficiency, corruption and bad policies based on ignoring the huge amount of debt will come back to bite us By Les Manison Research articles contend that the quality of ...

By Alper Ali Riza The victory of Helen Morgan over the Conservative candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst in the North Shropshire mid-term election on Friday is a shot across the bows of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy in the EU is gradually improving, despite the continuing pandemic. The historically unprecedented monetary and fiscal support was a decisive factor, which ...

I must admit that I googled the plot of the 1997 film ‘Wag the Dog’ before starting to write this. It’s a dark comedy about a US president facing a ...

The trajectory of the 1959-64 events was clearly pointing to the catastrophe that followed A captivating, well-documented new book by Takis Hadjidemetriou traces the roots of the current deplorable state ...

The four pillars of medical ethics should hold firm under a national health service According to the Modern Hippocratic Oath there is art to medicine. It is the gift of ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou ‘Ism’ is a suffix for many words now: cyborgism anyone? Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, made to fight unfeelingly as he doles out witty ...

The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and ...

Calls for more drastic action intensifying Energy transition is unstoppable, particularly in Europe. Despite the current energy crisis, calls for faster energy transition during COP26 and subsequently, including calls for ...

Two recent incidents have attempted to undermine the status of the University of Cyprus In the relatively short period since its foundation in 1989, the University of Cyprus has established itself ...

From Alpha to Omega but leaving out Xi Alpha was the UK variant, Beta the South African, Gamma the Brazilian, and Delta the Indian. The Chinese virus is outside the ...

by Richard Dickenson My father, whose work involved a good deal of public speaking, gave me this week’s title as the best possible advice for the task. He also ...

Important to regain the support of international opinion on the Cyprus problem Before saying anything else, I wish to emphatically state that my goal and intention is to strengthen the ...

An article with the innocuous title ‘Reframing incentives for climate policy action’ slipped out in the scientific journal Nature Energy three weeks ago and got very little attention, presumably because ...